Improvement in metal roofing



s. HUGHES. METAL ROOFING.

No. 103,887. Patnted June 7, 1870.

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SEYMOUR HUGHES; OF HUDSON CITY, NEW JERSEY.

Letters Patent No. 103,887,'datcd June 7, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN METAL ROOFING.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and. making part of the same To all whom it may concern:

l igugelrepresents a plan. or top view of a section of a roof, provided with my improved joints.

Fignre2isan'iiivei ted plan view of the same.

Figure 3 is a vertical section of the same, taken on the plane of the line a: x, fig. 1.

Figure 4 is a detail vertical section of the same, taken on the plane of the line 3 3 fig. 1.

Figure 5 is a plan view of one of the plates used on the roof.

Figure 6 is a longitudinal sect-ion of the same.

Figure 7 is a. detail vertical section of one of the joints.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention has for its object to so construct the plates of a metallic roofing that the joints formed between-them may be entirely water tigha l-Ieretofore, such joiiitsj especialiy at' the corners where four plates meet, could not be made satisfactorily water- 7 hupegigns to, ,an d .a non-condnctorof" water.

' proof fabric is fitted between the two. ,form of joint will also do away with all rivets, and

use .of a watch...

Still-make tight joints.

four corners meet, leave room for the insertion of a lozenge-shaped plate, B, which has its-cornerselew vatedandbent outwardly, asatt-a a, in fig. 1, to embracc, with each projecting corner piece, the upward projecting flanges b,of, two adjoining plates A. Between the cornersathe'plate B is so bent as to rest upon and conform to the shape of the plate 'A, as

shown. in fig. 4.

(LOarcpieces of fabric interposed hetween the...

It merely overlaps the said plat-es, as shown tuln'or other equivalent matter, whereby it is made; i i A-and B .water-proofli i fll;

keeps the joints out tliejfiiiof solderfrirets orother iasteningdevices, and permits, consequently, full expansion and contraction of said plates, without any danger to the joints. 7

Similar sheets, 0', are interposed between the metal sheets D A, which foiTn the gutter, as shown. For some cases, where but three plates A are joined, it may be necessary to use but half a lozcnge'plate, as at B, and in some cases the fabric 0 may be confined tothe plate B by an ear, 0, fastened to the plate A.

The contiguous-edges b b of the plates A A, are

either merely covered by a U-shaped cap, 11, or they may, as in fig. 7, be turned out and receive a cap, 0, which has itsv edges bentu p, while a piece, f, of water- 'This latter willpermit free expansion and contraction.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The roofing-sheets A clipped at the corners to receive the lozenge-shaped joint-piecesli as-setforth.

2. The water-proof fabric 0, interposed between the plates A B of a metal roof, to-permit expansion and contraction of said plates, as set forth.

SEYMOUR HUGHES. Witnesses:

A. W. BRIESEN, Geo. W. MABEE. 

